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This Central Intelligence Agency file is a compilation of Top Secret Director's Log entries from September and December 1951. The entries are daily reports from CIA offices such as OSO, OPC and OO on covert operations and intelligence matters. They cover leaflet drops over mainland China, agent teams sent into Albania and Bulgaria, plans for defector detention centers in Panama, liaison with British, French and Spanish services, and the opening of the Trotsky papers at Harvard. None of the entries mentions UFOs.

  • p. 68 …The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in Cairo in early October for the…
  • p. 93 …This book was printed in Cairo and copies taken to France. From there small lots of…
  • p. 168 …OSO/Cairo interviewed the 2 French Zone/Germany. -Poles in October with similar negative results but…
  • p. 174 …A meeting took place in Cairo on 26 Nov. between US Ambassador Caffery, the British Ambassador…
  • p. 184 …Discussions re the implementation of CIA' slemergency program for Egypt are reported progressing satisfactorily in Cairo…
  • p. 192 …ACTION OPC steps have been taken to have them rebroidcast- Ambassador Caffery in Cairo and Mr…
  • p. 194 …Legation in Cairo who defected in Paris after brief contact with OSO/Cairo. Since- the defectors…
  • p. 217 …ACTION We are dispatching an agent from Cairo to liarachi' to attend the World Moslem Conference…
- - TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
1 Oct. 2 Oct..
)ATE OF DATE 8:30. AM, - 8:30 AM,
OCUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC (Cont'd)
CIA Athens reports that the French Ambassador in Sofia
was informed by a Greek diplomatic source that RADIO GOBIANIN is
located in Greece and is not a real clandestine station but is
U.S. sponsored. Word to this effect appears to have spread
throughout the Sofia diplomatic community.
After three days absence without leave, a Frankfurt OPC
staff employee, Walter Reason (GS-7, Administrative assistant),
sent a commercial cable from Rome requesting instructions on
how to resign from the Agency. A representative from the
Frankfurt station was immediately sent to'Rome to return
Reason to Frankfurt. On orders from Washington, Reason was
flown to the United States to be interrogated by I & S. The
interrogation and polygraph.tests were' negative. Reason was
discharged for abandonment of position) his passport, P 'and
AGO cards have been sent by the Transportation Division to
State and Army for cancellation. The case is considered closed.
The second scheduled plenary meeting of the Organization
Bureau of the CIA sponsored Council for the Liberation of the ~
Peoples of Russia has been delayed beyond the projected data of
30 September. The delay has been caused primarily by the Georgian
groups who are taking longer than predicted in signing the
- Stuttgart Protocol. These groups are, now expected to meet and
reach an agreement among themselves on the Protocol on 5 October.
The Armenian groups are similarly delayed, but will meet:.in
Cairo in early October for the same purpose.
050
While in Paris the DOI invited Robert Hirsch, Director of the Surete
Nationale, to visit CIA in Washington, suggesting also that Mr. Thayer
be in ashington at the same time. Tha visit is tentatively scheduled
for the first week in November.
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